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    Composer

    Score6 out of 10
    N/AComposer is a free and open source dependency manager for PHP. It allows the user to declare the libraries a project depends on and it will manage (install/update) them. it manages packages on a per-project basis, installing them in a directory (e.g. vendor) inside a project and by default, it does not install anything globally. Thus, it is a dependency manager.N/A

    NuGet

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ANuGet is the package manager for .NET. The NuGet client tools provide the ability to produce and consume packages. The NuGet Gallery is the central package repository used by all package authors and consumers.N/A
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    Open Source
    I do highly recommend it whenever you have some PHP projects, especially if you need to have reusable modules that you want to share across teams. With a good branching an tagging strategy, you can go a long way in making your developers' life easier. They will only need to work on the modules that are of interest of them, and not have to touch the whole codebase.
    Also, it's quite necessary if you are planning to use community PHP modules, as the vast majority of them is distributed, and versionned via packagist.org, and thus via composer.
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    Microsoft
    Whenever your projects need some packages which are available on NuGet it is easy to consume them with the help of tools such as Visual Studio, and MSBuild. We can add customized functionality to existing packages and can host them as a separate packages easily. Packages that depend on other packages are well managed by NuGet.
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    Pros
    Open Source
    • Controlling dependencies
    • Fast dependency resolver
    • Easy to use dependency injection
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    Microsoft
    • The built-in package explorer / manager in Visual Studio work reliably
    • Integration with popular web-based repository manager is good
    • Command-line options are enough even for complex use cases like publishing to private, credentials-protected repositories
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    Cons
    Open Source
    • Sometimes a bit slow, but v2 made a lot of improvements on that
    • If everything is modular, setting up a local dev environment is a bit trickier than having everything in the same repo
    • Might be hard to adopt with some frameworks which have not fully embraced it, like Wordpress
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    Microsoft
    • Incomplete download resume in case of network disruptions
    • Adding user friendly platform to add and update the packages
    • Package creation option in Visual Studio
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    Open Source
    If you're familiar with npm or Yarn, you'll feel right at home with composer. The work in pretty much the same way. You can use a composer.json file in your repo to reference specific version of public community modules, and enterprise internal ones. You can also hook some scripts that you would want to execute, like for testing, building your code ...
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    Microsoft
    Not really have a choice here, especially when working with .NET Framework / .NET Core. At least the built-in GUI of NuGet helps beginners get up to speed quickly. However, advanced users would be able to be more productive with Maven / Ivy thanks to the complete text-based format. Basically, people from the Java world are spoiled by a much better dependency management system.
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    Return on Investment
    Open Source
    • Composer only has had positive impacts in our business. It saves a lot of time and resource in order to develop a software.
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    Microsoft
    • Saves a rework by sharing the common functionalities across the projects
    • Helped to optimize the given package using a central repository
    • Helped to make use of existing useful packages
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